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...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...wounded man's three worst enemies -shock, infection, delay. While still on the field-if possible-a man is treated to stop bleeding and reduce shock. He may get an injection of blood plasma, collected by the Red Cross back home, may take tablets of an infection-preventing sulfa drug which he carries into battle with him. Like many a Russian soldier, the U.S. soldiers are flown to a hospital, but Guadalcanal's hospital is "several hundred miles away" on another island...
During a bad U.S. epidemic in 1928, mortality was so high that many physicians lost faith in the serums which were then widely used. But about 1935 improved serums and antitoxins were developed. The sulfa-drugs have also reduced meningitis mortality. In World War I, meningitis killed 39% of the U.S. soldiers who came down with it. Using both the improved serum and sulfa-compounds in the recent Virginia outbreak, Borden & Strong held mortality...
...shock, infection and delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently: "We are still wondering whether...
...Debridement - the time-consuming cleansing and removal of dead tissues and blisters-is eliminated as the necessary first step in burn therapy. Dr. Pendleton believes that sulfa drugs now make debridement unnecessary and the wax can be safely sprayed on top of oil, dirt, charred clothing, etc. He also thinks that debridement may remove live tissues vitally needed to bridge over the destroyed areas. When burns are treated with wax film (which is washed away each day), a slow, gentle debridement takes place without injury to the growing cells...